[PATCH][Precise] [media] usbvision: revert commit 588afcc1

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Tue Sep 27 09:43:08 UTC 2016


From: Vladis Dronov <vdronov at redhat.com>

Commit 588afcc1c0e4 ("[media] usbvision fix overflow of interfaces
array")' should be reverted, because:

* "!dev->actconfig->interface[ifnum]" won't catch a case where the value
is not NULL but some garbage. This way the system may crash later with
GPF.

* "(ifnum >= USB_MAXINTERFACES)" does not cover all the error
conditions. "ifnum" should be compared to "dev->actconfig->
desc.bNumInterfaces", i.e. compared to the number of "struct
usb_interface" kzalloc()-ed, not to USB_MAXINTERFACES.

* There is a "struct usb_device" leak in this error path, as there is
usb_get_dev(), but no usb_put_dev() on this path.

* There is a bug of the same type several lines below with number of
endpoints. The code is accessing hard-coded second endpoint
("interface->endpoint[1].desc") which may not exist. It would be great
to handle this in the same patch too.

* All the concerns above are resolved by already-accepted commit fa52bd50
("[media] usbvision: fix crash on detecting device with invalid
configuration")

* Mailing list message:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/msg94832.html

Signed-off-by: Vladis Dronov <vdronov at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil at cisco.com>
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>      # for v4.5
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab at osg.samsung.com>
CVE-2015-7833
(backported from commit d5468d7afaa9c9e961e150f0455a14a9f4872a98)
[ luis: file rename ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/media/video/usbvision/usbvision-video.c | 7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/video/usbvision/usbvision-video.c b/drivers/media/video/usbvision/usbvision-video.c
index 902140e8db3e..8f7408116362 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/usbvision/usbvision-video.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/usbvision/usbvision-video.c
@@ -1502,13 +1502,6 @@ static int __devinit usbvision_probe(struct usb_interface *intf,
 	printk(KERN_INFO "%s: %s found\n", __func__,
 				usbvision_device_data[model].model_string);
 
-	/*
-	 * this is a security check.
-	 * an exploit using an incorrect bInterfaceNumber is known
-	 */
-	if (ifnum >= USB_MAXINTERFACES || !dev->actconfig->interface[ifnum])
-		return -ENODEV;
-
 	if (usbvision_device_data[model].interface >= 0)
 		interface = &dev->actconfig->interface[usbvision_device_data[model].interface]->altsetting[0];
 	else if (ifnum < dev->actconfig->desc.bNumInterfaces)




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